ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
By July 1918 WWI is resisted with strikes on the home front
Four months before the armistice workers begin to oppose the repression in Britain and the brutal intervention to smother the Soviet Revolution, writes JOHN ELLISON
IMPERIALIST BLUEPRINT: Allied troops parade past
their headquarters in Vladivostok in July 1918
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
July 1918 brought more war along the long line of the Western Front, where one newly wounded British soldier-poet with a record of adventurous bravery and a German forename was Siegfried Sassoon.
He received a head wound from accidental fire from a fellow soldier when returning from a patrol on July 13. Just published was his poetry collection Counter-Attack and Other Poems.
One item included the following verse, which was to become famously symbolic of the war.
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